Understanding Education Policy

Professor Jones reminds us that the term "educational policy" is typically used as if it were definitive when it really is not. She then moves on to provide definition and taxonomy that has a solid and very useful theoretical grounding for sorting and analyzing various policy initiatives. Professor Daniel W. Lang, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Perceptions of Policy.- 3. Policy Paradigms Frameworks: Gaps Within Research.- 4. The Four Orientations to Education Framework​.